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Incorporated,
&c.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That Denard Williams, Samuel John-
son, Samuel P. Bowin, Francis A. Bowin, William E.
Timmons, George Bishop, Levin Townsend, Robert
Nairne, William Johnson, Thomas R. Rounds, Zadok
T. Selby, John E. Hayward, Matthew Purnell, Zadok
O. Selby, David K. Hopkins, George N. Upshur, John
R. Franklin, William C. Mumford, Edward Duffield,
William H. Farrow, Teagle Townsend, Edward Dy-
mock, Littleton R. Purnell, Robert W. Williams. James
G. Townsend, Thomas S. Turpin, Jesse B. Truit,
William H. Holland, Thomas D. Purnell, Thomas S.
Gray, Thomas E. Hammond, Thomas H. Collins,
Levin Holland, George P. Spence, George C. Town-
send, Edward D. Martin, Samuel S. McMasters, Joshua
C. Johnson, Zadok P. Henry, Littleton P. Franklin,
Edward Scarborough, and their successors, and such
other persons as may now own or possess, or that
may hereafter from time to time become owners or
possess, any stock in said company, be and they are
hereby incorporated by the name of the Pocomoke
Steamboat company of Maryland, for the purpose of es-
tablishing a line or lines of steamboats between the city
of Baltimore and the town of Snowball, on the Poco-
moke river, in Worcester county, and also in, or in any
of the waters, of the Chesapeake bay, to convey passen-
gers and transport any description of freight to and from
the city of Baltimore and the town of Snowhill, and to
and from the various landing places on the Pocomoke
river, or any other waters of the Chesapeake bay; the
capital stock of said company shall not exceed fifty
thousand dollars.
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To make bye-
laws.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the persons herein
above incorporated, or a majority of them assembled,
due notice having been given to the rest of the company
of the design, time, and place of the meeting, shall nave
power to make all such bye-laws, rules, regulations as
may be necessary and proper for effecting the objects of
said corporation, designate and choose their officers for
the management of the business of said company, divide
their capital into such shares as they shall think proper
and suitable, and provide for taking subscriptions of
stock, and for transferring the same, and provide in any
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